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the latter died young) \ and that all the other 

 children, nine in number, were born between 1626 

 and 1640. This second wife of Thomas Ken the 

 elder died March 19, 1640. The list of births 

 which I have given from a pedigree supplied by 

 C. G. Young, Esq., York Herald, to Mr. Bowles 

 (Part I. Chap, i.) omits Thomas Ken, who was born 

 in 1637. So far, I think, the births, deaths, and 

 marriages may be taken as correct. 



It was about the year 1646, says Mr. Marston, 

 after having lost his first wife in 1640 (the same 

 year that Ken, then three years old, lost his 

 mother), Walton married Anne, daughter of 

 Thomas Ken the elder. We have no information 

 as to the place where the marriage took place or 

 the exact date of it.^ All the biographers of 

 Walton, one following the other, speak of the Ken 

 family as one of ancient extraction, and, says 

 Dr. Zouch, "they were united by alliance with 



1 Notes and Queries (6th series, xii. p. 326) mentions a 

 sale of oak furniture at Worcester, October 10, 1884. The 

 auctioneers described a curious dower coffer said to have 

 come from the cathedral at Worcester, on the centre panel 

 of which was inscribed — 



" Izaak Walton and Ann Ken was joyned together in holie 

 wedlock on ye eve of Saint Gregory, Ano. MDCXLVII. 

 dom." (Eve of St. Gregory, March 11, 1647), presumably 

 at Worcester. 



